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...autoimmune attack is analogous to the rejection process that occurs in patients who receive transplanted organs. To prevent rejection, transplant recipients are routinely given cyclosporine, a powerful drug that dampens the immune system and prevents it from attacking the foreign tissue. Intriguingly, clinical trials in the U.S., Canada and France have shown that cyclosporine, when given to people with Type I diabetes, can turn off the autoimmune attack. Cyclosporine is an extremely toxic drug and, in most cases, a very poor trade for insulin. But the clear demonstration that diabetes can be stopped has stirred excitement in the medical community...
...likened her job to "running a small country, a medium-size corporation, and being a social worker." With an annual budget of $52 million, the Oklahoma-based tribe operates industries, health clinics and cultural programs employing about 1,700 people. In July, while recovering from a kidney transplant, Mankiller signed an unprecedented agreement with the U.S. government that gives the tribe direct control of $6.1 million in federal funding. Mankiller, who attended college in California before returning to Oklahoma 14 years ago, is more optimistic than ever about her fundamental goal: seeing Indians solve their own economic problems...
...Want to try again?" She holds her breath as the second hand advances and bites her cheeks while Stubs tickles her with a paper flower. But when Stubs gives the girl's mother a rubber clown nose in a red-nose "transplant," the tiny patient erupts with laughter. For a few moments, at least, Dorothy's mind is off the pain and trauma of being...
...radiation technique had potentially fatalside effects, however, and it was not until 1962,when a drug called azathioprine was discovered tosuppress the immune system and allow the body toreceive a foreign organ, that Murray was able tosuccessfully transplant the kidney of an unrelatedcadaver...
...patients dying of burns, who could have survived if you could transplant skin from one person to another," Murray says...